I had been thinking about the old Mr gas pipe mystery and how the gas line bent itself down to the floor of the crawl space then poured crystals on itself to eat itself up and cause a gas leak.
Maybe Mr. GASPIPE is not mister gaspipe after all.

When I first moved there I was visited by some locals who got me to smoke some pot with them and after it had taken effect on me they started talking about narcotics agents or mentioned the word narc.

Then I flinched because I was worried they thought I was one and in the paranoia that pot can cause, they did look convinced I was one. They left shortly after, then after that was when the strong gas leak happened.
Before all that, within walking distance, 800 pot plants were found on a property. Now here I am with my telescope equipment looking like some sort of spy stuff to the rurals who know very little about technical things. And I looked like someone who may be an expert with spy stuff.

Now that I remembered that visit, I think I was wrong about the person I rented the house from being the one who bent the gas pipe and poured caustic crystals on it. I would think being stoned on the pot made the visit easy to forget and consider. That was one of just a few times I smoked pot since 1982 or so when I successfully attended a pot rehab.

I tried holding the lens of a cell phone camera to a 10x50 binocular eyepiece and got this result. Not too bad but my new cell phone camera can't seem to focus through the bino.
You need a mount adapter to get the image centered and to not shake the camera around the eyepiece, a difficult think to not screw up by hand. They have them on Ebay and Walmart.

Look at the details of the antennae on top of the water tower. Not bad. You may get some vignetting, a circular clipping of the photo depending on the optics of the phione cam and binos or telescope.

I love to talk, been called motormouth more than once. That won't work for long.
You see, I find myself here in this universe, I don't know where it really is or what it really is. But in it are these other biological entities and they communicate too. So like with a ham radio or CB you send audio and visual signals out into the air, they are received by another bio entity and they send some sort of signal back out to the sender and listeners also, sometimes. Such of a fantastic thing talking is.

Since seeing it that way I am more careful about what signals I send out than before, when I just took it for granted.
In other words don't like teasing people anymore.

I bought the entire three part Feynman Lectures and went through it all. Interesting and why I am annoyed.

Richard Feynman Lecture: Entropy, Past And Future, History Of The Universe (1/2) (21 min 32 sec)

One Army
Would you believe the Air Force , Marines and Navy are part of the Army ?

At the time I wrote this I was pretty sure some religious people were tormenting me even though Jesus reached to use intelligent reasoning to teach people not torment which usually doesn't work long. They just get more cleaver about not getting caught rather than to understand why to not do certain things like speak in the spirit of profanity. After I figgured out the word it's self is not bad, it is the spirit behind and inspiring the profanity.

There is some good advice on attic mold on page three.

I didn't start this, I just know what we really are and can't pretend we are gods precious little pets, he tortures us like a devil.


Look at this, they have me situated near a school, dumping and flooding my apartment with their raw sewage. It comes up into my basement apartment that I am not in by choice. They think I cooked up a plan to morally degrade their children. Once again, I am a patsy stuck in this mess and If I do not bring it up in humor, it gets brought in offensive torment. Any way to get it in that kid's mind and put the blame elsewhere. I have battled this my whole life. They want something like a Jesus to take the blame for whole world's perversion and get the worry off their nerves. I have heard some comments to that effect. I'm going to call them the Sewer Branch Davidians. (that's funny)

So I intend to use the situation for my exoneration if there is any concern. As long as they don't manage to get hallucinogens into me. And even then I have experience with the old formula ones but who knows what the future ones can do ? They are getting pretty good with that stuff. This isn't hey cool party man stuff, it is a mind steering thing. Very important subject to discuss.

Never mind, I really don't want to make a movie. Someone wanted to know, the Flytanic was a stupid ass movie. LOL

I have a trip to Russia planned. I have enough money to get there and back. Not sure how long I'll be there but if I find a nice place to live and fly from the yard I will try to stay permanently. For now I'm going to go there and see how things are.
I can go any time, maybe after the weather gets better and I'll also get photos.

As my Entertrainer build comes to a close, I see a new build coming that would overcome my hated obstacles, the fence and wires. The XTI Trifan 600. This looks like it will be the most practical VTOL to date.
There is a full scale Trifan approaching it's appearance, although I can't afford a real one, I can have a model. My plan is to hopefully use an open source Tricopter flight controller I can modify for this job. One challenge will be in how it manages flight mode transitions from VTOL to conventional airplane configuration and back. The rear fan covers will be a challenge also, they must be flawless in function and seal well in conventional mode. I see no reason I can't do this. This way I escape the fence, sun, and wires obstacles.
Some peeks below.

I suppose I'll be building an Entertainer from plans at the AMA site. I had the PDF printed at the local print shop, qty 6, 36x60 inch. Two each of the fuselage, and two each of the short and long wing. I plan to build both wings.

And it looks like it will be powered by a Cobra C-4120/18 and MAS 12x8x3 on 6S lipos. A very peppy airplane by the looks of the plans. 1.5:1 thrust and 73 mph pitch speed.

Looks like a large but simple build with low parts count. No outrageous jig needs.
So next I order the balsa, my mind is set. I like the designer's graphics, so I will clone them. I do want to make a clear windshield and extra round set of side windows. Hopefully no more mods, just build it.

http://www.modelaviation.com/entertrainer

I think I would run and shake my $4800 at him, but I of course would have to make sure it's as good as it looks. Someone I don't know is selling this locally. Some better wheels for the front and that's it.

I suppose after all I've been put through for flying, and the fact that I have only tried to fly several times since March, now the end of September, I can say I'm tired of the fight and I give up. Threading $400+ airplanes through 3 or more of them trying to fly all at once has been the last straw.
I'll probably be selling them soon, worth too much to scrap. Others may not have problems but I will. No more silly jokes pretending to accept the new USA, Land of the Brave but no longer home of the free.

Do they really think I'm stupid enough to play gladiator for them to enjoy the destruction as we thread our expensive airplanes through that ? No.

I tried an AeroSport 46 from Value Hobby. It's ok for a low wing taper wing trainer, but I would wait until you know stall recovery well. The taper wing airplanes do not stall as gently or recover as easily as the boring look rectangular wing. I figure what keeps me in the air is the best.

So far it is sort of sloppy at lower speeds maybe 40 mph and below. I'm testing it at only 570 watts, I would say it really needs 750 to 800 watts. It will fly modestly on 600.
I will need to upgrade my 6S 20C batteries as I am getting over 4 lbs with the airplanes. Those 20C's get stressed at that draw. It was nice getting by cheap on the lipos but when ya move up, ya gotta pay up.

Here's how I solved the ventilation situation without carving it up too badly. Cut a hole in the bottom of the cowl, carve the wide hole in the firewall bottom. That slot has two purposes, ventilation and also to simply be able to mount the ESC without scrunching the wires up in some desperate attempt.

The exit vent is made by removing the covering from the underside, between the cowl and landing gear. Then two pieces of aileron stock and some balsa sheet make the vent. I'm sure I can get by with the small exit because it generates a low pressure as the flow rushes past the ramped vent. You might want to close the air intake side of the esc with scotch tape to keep dew and condensation from getting rammed into the speed control.

I did this on another such plane and it makes a nice sort of hiss and bit of high speed whistle sound at high speed. Just a little bit of whistle, not a screamer.

I tore the landing gear off two days ago because of an ESC with bad soldering and a heat sink/rf shield that shorted out. It was not heat that caused the failure, but I decided to carve the sleek look up for practical purposes.

I ran into a need to detect a flame or fire and sound an alarm (again, still trying to get out of here). Suppose you have a bunch of glow fuel and often worry it might somehow catch fire.
Here's how to make one that doesn't use any electric until it senses a fire.

You need a microswitch. Preferably, one with a long arm that has a roller or hole at the end of the arm. Wire your horn or whatever to be turned on by the NC (normally closed) contacts of the microswitch.

Now find the thinnest fishing line you can find. Fix the microswitch to a 100% firm structure and so that you can tie one end of the fishing line to the arm, the reason for the roller or hole, a place to reliably tie the line.

Mount the switch so when you pull on the fishing line, it pulls the arm in and opens the NC contacts. Now stretch the line across the area you store flammables and fix it reliably to some structure.

So with a horn or some sort of alarm connected to receive power when the arm swings to it's natural position, you are now protected. A flame will melt the fishing line, and the arm will swing, the NC contact closes, and the horn (etc.) sounds.

Good luck and use it at your own risk, I am simply explaining how I make one.

Of course you want to mount the switch where the fire can't get to it, at least for a very long time. The string will pull the switch (and any of them) in the down direction. It has a spring that returns it to the up position as shown. Some people haven't seen these.
And you might want to attach a stronger spring to it to be sure it trips.

I'm interested in the neutral field on the right. The uncoupled accumulation of stray fields EVERYWHERE may cause problems with the earth. Best to leave masses of devices to experts who know how to keep things with the earth's field correct. I do think large scale production of magnetic devices should be controlled, if not already.

Physics Lab Demo 6: Magnetic Field (2 min 26 sec)

I did not waste any time typing a post here. It was well spent.

I have found that glow fuel causes severe global warming. Spill some in your lap and I guarantee it will warm the globe.

July 21, 2012

I finally did my 54 inch Cessna in tonight. Went out to fly with no dinner and lost my depth perception. Went out too far on base leg and snagged a power line then it fell to the pavement. Tore the nose out and did strip the rudder servo gears, HS-81. I think I stripped a wing servo gear too, it makes the sound but tracks. I'll take them apart tomorrow to see.

I did crunch two Turnigy 3S 2200's. So after I was done flying my other plane I shot some holes in the batteries. No flames, but an orange glow in the holes and a cloud of smoke. I wanted to see if they would flame, but no flames. More fun than tossing them in a bucket of water to discharge. Now to be sure, they go in a bucket of water for a few days.

No need to say sorry, this was a lesson in rolling with the punches. That plane was a scratch build and it flew and landed just fantastic. Now I'm off to find a 3.5 lb 54 inch to 60 some inch replacement.

Wow, as bad as the Cessna was damaged, I got it flying again in a few days. So don't freak out in front of everyone if you crash. You might get it flying again and not make a fool of yourself.

Oct-Nov has been a bad month. I lost a Great Planes Cirrus and an electrocuted Laser Stick .10 with a sheeted wing mod. Not so good, three planes in a few months. I went years without crashing. I left a trash can in the way and lost the Cirrus trying to move it while flying, the Laser Stick .10 had an aileron servo go bad.

zzzzit happens

I'm often asked, "What's the big deal about flying ?" Why not do something else ?"

What's the big deal about something else ?